Design in the real world

May 16, 2012May 16, 2012

Making tipping easy to use

Years ago there was a trend on credit card tabs at restaurants to list a handy guide to tipping. This saved customers the trouble of having to do math, which I have to guess had a positive effect on how much of a tip people left.

That trend never caught on, but recently at a restaurant here in Seattle (Agave) I saw it again.

The one thing that is missing here is offering the total. Why only do half the math?